Thanks...but being a python newbie I am struggling to understand how to do this.
How can I use tzinfo to do the equivalent of what I do in Java, which is : TimeZone tz1 = TimeZone.getDefault(); long localOffset = tz1.getOffset(date.getTime()); TimeZone tz2 = TimeZone.getTimeZone("EST"); long remoteOffset = tz2.getOffset(date.getTime()); Any help appreciated On May 23, 11:48 am, Daniel Kluev <dan.kl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:32 PM, loial <jldunn2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does python have an equivalent of the java Timezone object? > > > I need to be able to get offsets for timezones (only U.S. time zones > > at the moment) > > Depends on what exactly do you want. If you need to convert timezone > name into current offset, you should use [1] or [2]. > If you just need to handle known offsets for datetime objects, there > is tzinfo class in datetime module, [3]. > > [1]http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PosixTimeZone/0.9.4 > [2]http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/2011g > [3]http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#tzinfo-objects > > -- > With best regards, > Daniel Kluev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list